News of the Day No 37

Solemn meeting on the occasion of the start-up of the Volga Hydroelectric Power Plant named after the XXII Congress of the CPSU. Nikita Khrushchev is speaking. Engine room; the turbine is running; NS Khrushchev and others visiting the power plant. Moscow city. Soviet-Cuban talks in the Kremlin. Taking part in the negotiations: L. I. Brezhnev, A. N. Kosygin, K. V. Novikov, A. A. Gromyko, N. S. Patolichev; from the Cuban side: President of the Republic of Cuba Osvaldo Dorticos Torrado, Blas Roca, Raul Roa Garcia, Faure Chomon. Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Norway F. Jacobsen presents his credentials to Leonid Brezhnev in the Kremlin. Transportation of grain to the Magnitogorsk elevator by heavy trucks. Loading, unloading of grain. Moscow city. International Exhibition of Art Photography, which opened at the House of Friendship with the Peoples of Foreign Countries. Tourists on the shore of Lake Teletskoye in the Gorno-Altai region. Tourists at the tents; sailing on a boat; play guitars. Artists of the Moscow Art Theater rehearsing one of the scenes of the play "Above the Dnieper" based on the play by A. Korneichuk, directed by M. Kedrov. The performance is played by artists: S. Blinnikov, V. Toporkov, O. Androvskaya, M. Yurieva, B. Petker, L. Zolotukhin. Meeting of the USSR pilot-cosmonauts GS Titov and Yuri Gagarin with the artists of Moscow theaters in the House of the Actor. The meeting is attended by artists: A. A. Yablochkina, I. Ilyinsky, S. Birman, R. Simonov, F. Ranevskaya, M. Yanshin, M. Zharov, Y. Borisova. G.S. Titov and Yu. A. Gagarin give autographs.

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